Discarding conflicting packet due to recent request

[Alan DeKok]

On Jun 1, 2017, at 8:06 AM, khouzam yaghi <khouzam.yaghi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> i am receiving this error from time to time in the radius log
> 
> Error: Discarding conflicting packet from client PPPOE1 port 33184 - ID: 1
> due to recent request
> 
> i searched online and found very old posts about this error, what does it
> mean? is it something related to the database slow?

  Yes.

> or broken NAS?

  Possibly that, too.

> my NAS
> is a Linux server running accel-ppp as a pppoe-server.
> is this something related to the NAS itself or to my configuration with
> freeradius? also what does this error means?

  It means that something is blocking there server.  To see what's going wrong, run the server in debugging mode.

  The default configuration does *not* have this behaviour.  Largely because it doesn't talk to databases by default.

  Alan DeKok.